Applying NLP Now Archive

One of our coaches told me the following story, and I thought it was such a great fit with Labor Day I asked her to write it up for you.  Those of you most familiar with NLP will appreciate the elegant use of this familiar model in a specific context.
Some years ago, a good [...]

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We all have at least one Tough Customer in our life. No matter what we say or do, this person is never satisfied, argues relentlessly, and sees the glass half-empty.
When they’re just passing through, dealing with them is fairly simple. Let them pass, or walk away, or hang up the phone (thanks to caller ID, [...]

Recently the Allergy Process was mentioned to me as if there was only one version.  No, no, no.  There are two distinct versions, and here are the tried and true exercise formats for both of them!
You can find more instruction and framing in both “Heart of the MInd” and of course a full walk through [...]

Language Directs Attention: Negative Commands - How they don’t work (and do!)
Here Connirae Andreas describes this distinction in a context where it’s a easy to recognize the importance of this distinction!
And whatever you do, don’t start wondering now just how soon you’ll find ways to use these in your life.:-)
Offering [...]

Here is one of the classic Anchoring processes.  Often overlooked, still as powerful as ever! While staged for groups of four, you can certainly do it with two, and even, perhaps, practice with yourself!
And just what will this skill allow you to do that will surprise and delight you?

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I had a request to re-post this classic from our archives, so here it is!  By Kevin Creedon, it’s a great little piece of quick change artistry good for all
“Think of a problem.”
Those four words are used repeatedly throughout NLP trainings because most of the time NLP techniques are used in a prescriptive [...]

Frequently advanced students of NLP seem to forget or pass over the benefits and strengths of Anchoring.  Perhaps because of its simplicity, perhaps because it’s taught early on in most NLP programs.  Whatever the reason, overlooking the effectiveness and ease of anchoring is a very big miss.
So the next few weeks I’ll be exploring some [...]

STRAGEDY: When Your Strategy Turns Into A Tragedy

by Jan Prince, NLP Author, Practitioner and Trainer

All of us operate out of unconscious patterns that “get us what we have always gotten.” When these patterns repeatedly harm our relationships or our careers we are unwittingly creating our own tragedies. If we can examine and experience [...]

In preparing this address, naturally the first thing I did was look again at the conference title: “Modeling Excellence in an Increasingly Complex World.” And I thought back to when I was a kid, and recalled that it seemed pretty darned complex then, too. We were diving under chairs to protect ourselves from atomic bombs, [...]

Lately I have noticed with increasing frequency and delight the number of instances of discoveries and principles and understandings first generated in the field of NLP that are now becoming known and verified by mainstream Western science.
It was in NLP that the understanding that people

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Practical Uses of Eye Movement Integration
by Jan Prince, NLP Practitioner & Trainer
When I took the NLP practitioner training twenty some years ago I remember utilizing the different eye movements to detect which representation system a person was using at any time and to elicit the use of a particular rep system by having the person [...]